Bilawal reveals plan to permanently settle in Lahore

PPP chairman says continue to engage in politics from Punjab

Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has revealed his plans of permanently moving to Lahore and continue to engage in politics from Punjab.

“I am going to become a resident of Lahore from January and will settle there to carry out politics from there… and I am sure Bhutto and Lahore will make a great political combination,” Bilawal said while addressing a press conference in Lahore on Wednesday.



Bilawal’s statement comes at a time when the PPP is pushing the government to agree to its four demands, one of which is related with the ongoing Panama Papers inquiry.

Casting a jibe at the federal government over the ongoing investigation into the Panamagate, the PPP leader said: “If it were a prime minister from our [PPP] side facing the scandal, he would have been hanged by now.”

The PPP chairman went on to add he can foresee elections taking place in 2017, but added that political alliances can be formed.

Bilawal also termed intra-party elections conducted by Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) a farce.

Earlier, the PPP chairman said he did not come to Lahore to take part in Punjab politicking, but to occupy the province in a democratic manner. He said the PPP, in the first phase, would raise a ‘go Nawaz go’ slogan across the country and subsequently start its campaign for the 2018 general elections. He stressed monarchy continued in Punjab, but added this would be the last term of the Sharif brothers as PPP had decided to permanently end their rule in the country.



The PPP’s four demands require the federal government to revive the national security committee of parliament; accept the bill presented by the PPP on the Panama Papers controversy in the National Assembly; implement the resolutions passed at the recent multiparty conference on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor and appoint a full-time foreign minister immediately.

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